How can one enable a temporary swap space for the installation of FC3
with LVM via kickstart?
I recently installed FC3 on an old P133 with 64 MB RAM and without a
CD-ROM drive by first installing a minimal FC1 then doing some
slight-of-hand to get FC3 installed:
http://www.cwelug.org/cgi-bin/wiki.cgi?FedoraCore3#bootstrap_install
However, I had to modify the kickstart script to use regular partitions
instead of LVM:
clearpart --all --drives=hda
part /boot --fstype ext3 --size=200 --ondisk=hda
part / --fstype ext3 --size=1024 --grow --ondisk=hda
part swap --size=96 --grow --maxsize=200 --ondisk=hda
To see if I could get LVM under FC3, I manually reinstalled FC3. That
is, I removed the ks=... option from the grub.conf file so that it
looked like so:
kernel /grub/ks/vmlinuz ramdisk_size=8192 nofb text
After going through the various questions of a manual install, the
Anaconda paused and warned me that I did not have enough RAM and asked
if I wanted to turn on a temporary swap. I replied with yes, and now
FC3 is running on that old machine without issue.
So, how can I tell kickstart to create a temporary swap file in order
to do an FC3 install with LVM?
Pointers to documentation greatly appreciated. Hints on Google search
terms also appreciated. Googling for "kickstart+swap+LVM" and variants
generated a lot of false hits.
Regards,
- Robert
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